The following is from the DARPA project proposal:
There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first decade: education, space economy and biospheres.

The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers who can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in the form of an open source education program, with both self-education and group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual innovation and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences and engineering.

Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.
Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission
Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up production, research into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated manufacturing.

Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space and other planets of the solar system through the creation of self-encapsulated biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste recycling.